The Sea Mystery is a 1928 detective novel by Freeman Wills Crofts.[1] It is the fourth in a series of novels featuring Inspector French of Scotland Yard.[2] As with a number of his works Crofts creates a puzzling mystery which French is then able to solve using a Tide table and Bradshaw's Guide to the railways.[3] The plot has some similarities with his debut novel The Cask (1920).[4]
Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
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Cover artist | H. Dixon |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | Inspector French |
Genre | Mystery |
Publisher | Collins |
Publication date | 1928 |
Media type | |
Preceded by | Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy |
Followed by | The Box Office Murders |
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French of Scotland Yard is called in when a fisherman discovers a crate containing a battered body on the cost of South Wales. His investigations eventually take him to Devon.
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Bibliography edit
- Carter, Ian. Railways and Culture in Britain: The Epitome of Modernity. Manchester University Press, 2001.
- Evans, Curtis. Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961. McFarland, 2014.
- Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
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